Talk entitled ‘The current crisis in the Middle East, the deterioration in US-Arab relations and the implications for Lebanon and the region’. Mr Tueni is one of Lebanon’s foremost statesmen and political writers. He is also the publisher and editor of Lebanon’s An-Nahar, one of the Arab world’s most credible and authoritative daily newspapers (established in 1933). Mr Tueni, who lives in Lebanon, is a former Member of Parliament and Cabinet Minister and was also Lebanon’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations in the late seventies and early eighties.